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TIL that mowing American lawns uses 800 million gallons of gas every year

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Yp18G TIL in 1818, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer described the post-orgasm moment of clarity as "devil's laughter", explaining: "They have fulfilled their need to reproduce and are momentarily caught in the abyss of meaninglessness."
OoMN4 TIL Hubert Latham was the first to attempt to fly a plane over the English Channel in 1909; he failed, but in doing so he became the first person to ever land a plane on water.
8M98 TIL that no one in Australia has died from a Spider bite since 1981
ZpyLY TIL the Austrlian jewel beetle nearly went extinct because of Emu beer bottles. Their colour and texture drove the male beetles wild with lust, causing them to ignore the females of the species and swarm the bottles until they starved to death or were eaten by other animals.
mJOx TIL that at the 1996 Apple World Wide Developer Conference, attendees were given Linux CDs by Apple